Just over a third (35 per cent) of the new senior counsel are women, a slight increase on last year but well short of 2022, when more women than men were granted the title for the first time.

The barristers are Claire Collins, John Francis Hayden, Eamon Marray, Lorcan Connolly, Ciara Daly, Tabitha Wood, Susan Ahern, Donal O’Sullivan, Gareth Compton, Carl Hanahoe, Alison Keirse, Eoin Lawlor, Peter Shanley, Gráinne Duggan, Michael D. Hourigan, Jarlath Ryan, Aoife Carroll, Seoirse Ó Dúnlaing, Anthony Hanrahan, Louise Reilly, David Whelan, Barry M. Ward, Frank Crean, John Berry, Colin Smith, David Fennelly and Fionnuala O’Sullivan.

The solicitors are David Bergin, Myra Garrett, John Meade, Marco Hickey, Michelle Ní Longáin, David Herlihy and John Cahir.